This will balance our federal budget and create surpluses the same way Newt
Gingrich, then Speaker of the House did during Bill Clinton's
administration. Clinton is still taking credit for it but that's ok!
Democrats do not want a balanced budget or fiscal responsibly because it reduces
government wasteful spending and entitlements which Democrats depend on to
create dependency and keeps them in power. A person dependent on the government
will almost always vote to keep their entitlements coming even though we have no
hope of ever paying for all of them, hence our $17 trillion debt and growing by
$10 billion every day! We simply can not continue to spend money we do not have!

Mountanman-Your re-writing history instead of reading it. Not one
Republican voted for the 1992 deficit reduction bill created by Clinton. The
GOP used the tax increases from that bill to help balance future budgets, they
never repealed them. Notice how Ryan's plan does not repeal the
Obama care taxes or the January tax increases? Once again, the GOP lets the
lib's do the heavy lifting.

@ HS Fan. Baloney! Newt Gingrich was speaker of the Republican controlled House
that passed the balanced budget. If not so, then please tell me how Gingrich got
himself elected as speaker and how the deficit reduction and welfare reform act
got passed if not a Republican voted for it since the Republicans controlled the
House at that time? How on earth did the deficit reduction act ever pass if no
Republican voted for it in a Republican dominated House of Representatives?
Even Bill Clinton announced afterward, " the era of big government is
over" after he was forced to agree to it!

The Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1993 (or
OBRA-93[1]) was a federal law that was enacted by the 103rd United States
Congress (without a single Republican vote) and signed into law by President
Bill Clinton. It has also been referred to, unofficially, as the Deficit
Reduction Act of 1993. Part XIII, which dealt with taxes and is also called the
Revenue Reconciliation Act of 1993.

It created 36 percent and 39.6
income tax rates for individuals in the top 1.2% of the wage earners.[2]It
created a 35 percent income tax rate for corporations.The cap on Medicare
taxes was repealed.Transportation fuels taxes were raised by 4.3 cents per
gallon.The taxable portion of Social Security benefits was raised.The phase-out of the personal exemption and limit on itemized deductions were
permanently extended.Part IV Section 14131: Expansion of the Earned Income
Tax Credit and added inflation adjustments.

The Affordable Care Act, or 'Obamacare' is, as John Boehner said,
"the law of the land." It is not going to be repealed. In fact, some
people, such as young adults who can remain on their parents' policies, are
already benefitting from it. In short, Ryan's budget, which relies on an
event that will not occur, is not really a budget at all. It is a wish
fulfillment fantasy.

Anyone criticizing the Ryan plan needs to tell us about the Democrat controlled
senate's budget proposals- ZERO passed in the last four years- to avoid
making any tough choices.

Tell us about Obama's last budget
proposal which received ZERO votes from any member of the House or Senate.

The Democrats are not serious about governing, or fixing the obscene
debt they have dumped in the laps of every child in the country. They want to
win elections by being Santa Claus and give "free stuff!" to low
information voters, but do not want to actually take responsibility for doing
what needs to be done.

In my opinion, the Ryan plan does not cut
nearly enough, or nearly fast enough, but it is the best plan on the table, so I
will support it.

Of course, any story from Associated Press is
little more than administration approved propaganda anyway.

Mountanman: 5 of the last 8 presidents have been republican. Kind of hard to
create dependency and maintain power with the track record!

DN
Subscriber: I see you are still on a liberal media, Santa Claus, free gifts, if
people don't vote like me they are low-information voters, kick. Nice!

This budget is the very same budget that democrats rejected before. If
this is what Ryan is spending his time doing, then he is doing a disservice to
his constituents, as this plan will be rejected also. Ryan needs to compromise,
and so do the democrats. That's what the people want and have been saying
for a long time. Neither side wants to compromise, and you end up with those
who think their way is the only way posting comments that others who disagree
with them must be getting government gifts or are low-information voters, which
is just a nice way of saying they are dumb!

So we have a "REAL" budget from Paul Ryan vs the "FAKE" budget
from Harry Reid. I listened to Ryan explain his budget and I was impressed with
the thoughtfulness as well as the practicality. The Ryan budget will balance the
US budget in 10 years - will INCREASE spending by 3% more each of the the next
10 years which accounts for inflation. The Ryan budget eliminates the now 2
trillion dollar train wreck of Obamacare and proposes a NEW and improved patient
centered healthcare reform package in its place.

The imposter or
"FAKE" budget proposed by uncle Harry asks for an additional 1 trillion
in NEW TAXES - this is in addition to the huge tax increase Obama already got on
Jan 1 as well as the new payroll tax that all of us got smashed with Jan 1. Also
the "FAKE" budget DOESN'T balance the US budget - doesn't even
try. This is just a bunch of new taxes and 5.5% new spending.

So the
Democrat's and liberals are content in NEVER balancing the budget and
therefore passing along to our kids a mount Everest sized mountain of debt which
will destroy future generations of Americans.

A new analysis from the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities underscores that
the poor are no longer the primary beneficiaries of the government safety net.
A new CBPP analysis of budget and Census data, shows that more than 90 percent
of the benefit dollars that entitlement and other mandatory programs[1] spend go
to assist people who are elderly, seriously disabled, or members of working
households — not to able-bodied, working-age Americans who choose not to
work.

People who are neither elderly nor disabled — and do not
live in a working household — received only 9% of the benefits. Moreover, the vast bulk of that 9% goes for medical care, unemployment
insurance benefits (which individuals must have a significant work history to
receive), Social Security survivor benefits for the children and spouses of
deceased workers, and Social Security benefits for retirees between ages 62 and
64.

African-Americans, who make up 22% of the poor, receive 14% of
government benefits, close to their 12% population share.

White
non-Hispanics, who make up 42% of the poor, 64% of the population, receive 69%
of government benefits.

@patriot"The Ryan budget eliminates the now 2 trillion dollar train
wreck of Obamacare and proposes a NEW and improved patient centered healthcare
reform package in its place. "

Actually it does no such thing.
Ryan still keeps the 716 billion in Medicare cuts that was in Obamacare. then
despite repealing the rest he still claims Obamacares' trillion in revenue.
Somehow he claims this reduces the deficit by 1.8 billion despite the 716
billion not being a change compared to current law and the 1.1 trillion still
being claimed despite him repealing that tax revenue. Then if he proposes
something new that's a new cost.

No wait a minute all of you. The Republicans have not passed a budget. Just
listen to Jay Carney and all the MSNBC talking heads.

OK, reality
time now.

Re: FDRfan: Using Hitler to make a point about
Republicans? Please.

Re: EdGrady: I don't think people like
you and I need to worry about any SS/Medicare being taken from our generation.
If Ryan and the Republicans tried to alter entitlements to people within a few
years of getting those entitlements, it WOULD end the Republicans as a party.
What needs to be done is adjust those programs for future generations, like
people currently in their 30s or 40s. What is most amazing is only today in an
interview with with George S on ABC, Obama said there is no immediate debt
problem and the debt can be sustained for another 10 years. Does anyone believe
it. Just how out of touch can this President be? In another 10 years at this
rate out debt will be 30 trillion dollars. Let's get some adult thinking
in the White House.

The author very aptly described exactly what is happening plain and simple,
"But this year's dueling GOP and Democratic budget proposals are more
about defining political differences — as if last year's elections
didn't do enough of that — than charting a path forward toward a
solution. Congressional budgets often simply state party positions, and
invariably are partisan endeavors."